Get the Context Action Name in the Method

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

AngelaIp — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:02:56 GMT

Has anyone ever figured out how to get the name of the calling "Action" item? I have a legacy use case were a couple of Actions items are still used with many similar Methods. I want to unify them first before switching to CUI. But right now I haven´t found a way to get the "Action" name.

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

AngelaIp — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:32:30 GMT

Hi Shruti!

Thanks for the hint! Works excellent! The ability to get the calling element is really a big pro argument for CUI elements.

Have a happy week!

Angela

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

ShrutiS — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 11:07:11 GMT

Hi Angela,

inArgs.control.id is what got me the button name 🙂

Thanks,

Shruti Suresh

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

AngelaIp — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:07:32 GMT

Hi Shruti,

I right now want to build a similar CUI Menu with buttons like you did in this post a few month ago.

Can you give me some hints regarding getting the Action or CUI Menu Button name with inArgs?

I thought I could use inArgs.commandId or inArgs.control.getId() to get the calling element.

But none of my variants I tried so far did contain anything. Not sure what is missing. Would be great if you could tell me how you did it :-D .

Thanks!

Angela

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

AngelaIp — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:09:38 GMT

CUI is the choice of the real professional!👍🙂

Haven´t tried this one with CUI so far, so your inArgs hint is also useful for myself. Not sure if I was really right with my Action solution. I think I mixed it up with a different issue. I checked my Actions again -> in reality I used small Methods that call the main Method with "dummy" property to indicate the calling Action. Your CUI solution is more elegant.

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

ShrutiS — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:08:16 GMT

Hi Angela,

Thanks for the response, for some response when I tried this.getAction() it returned the method name and not the Action name.

I then switched to the CUI menu item and I am now able to get the resp menu button name in the inArgs parameter 🙂

Regards

RE: Get the Context Action Name in the Method

AngelaIp — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:13:53 GMT

Hi ShrutiS,

that´s a very good question! I myself searched two years for this one until I was able to find the most obvious solution:

Innovator inn = this.getInnovator();
return inn.newError("This call comes from " + this.getAction());